Adding a quick create form to a kanban card

Grouped kanban views provide the quick create feature, which allows us to generate records directly from the kanban view. The plus icon on a column will display an editable kanban card on the column, using which you can create a record. In this recipe, we will see how we can design a quick create kanban form of our choice.

Getting started

For this recipe, we will be using the my_library module from the previous recipe. We will use the quick create option in kanban for the library.book.rent model.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to add a custom quick create form for kanban:

1. Create a new minimal form view for the library.book.rent model, as follows:

   <record id="library_book_rent_view_form_minimal" model="ir.ui.view">
       <field name="name">Library Rent Form</field>
       <field name="model">library.book.rent</field...